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History Makers: Mondale and Carter Reunite at Macalester LETTERS

The policy of Macalester Today is to publish for a while. Jim was right there as a friend, as many letters as possible from alumni, the one who sorted through the academic red Fritz and Pete primary audience of this magazine, as well as tape, and a "dad." I'll always remember I always enjoy receiving news about other members of the Macalester community. Thanksgiving that year. We spent it to- Macalester. The August issue of Macalester Exceptions are letters that personally malign gether at Sandy Hill's house. Towards the Today was extra special. an individual or are not related to issues at end of the evening, Jim and I were the A note in "Macalester Yesterday" men- Macalester or contents of the magazine. only ones at the table finishing a bottle of tioned "Pete Mondale — not a name Please send letters intended for publication wine and laughing at stories. we've been able to trace." You must have to Letters to the Editor, Macalester Today, In the Jewish tradition, there is no heard from many people who know that College Relations, Macalester College, 1600 greater honor that one can aspire to than Pete, Fritz's older brother, was at Mac Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105-1899. having "a good name." One can buy a before the future vice president. Or send your letter by fax: (612) 696-6192. great many things, but a good name results After all these years, it is still fun to read We reserve the right to edit letters jor from what is in your heart and how you about Fritz Mondale. Joan and Fritz are conciseness and clarity. treat other people. Jim Smail was one fine representatives of what Macalester has who earned a good name. He is missed, always been about. but yet lives on in the minds of those who A story on page 37 mentioned three knew him. delightful men I remember well — Roger Jim Smail's good name (Rabbi) Matthew L. Friedman '80 Awsumb, Chris Wedes and John Gallos. I The following letter from Matthew Friedman Hot Springs, Ark. was in first-year Communications class was sent to a friend and is used here with with Chris Wedes. Miss Grace May was their pern\ission. — the Editors our teacher. I'll never forget her or Chris. Hildegard Johnson John Gallos was the announcer for the Each time I would read about favorite The news of Dr. Hildegard Binder Macalester Choir broadcasts on the Mu- professors in Mac Today, I would think of Johnson's death was a shock. She had a tual Broadcasting Network coast to coast my two favorites, Jim Spradley and Jim profound influence on me. in the years immediately following World Smail. Each served as my adviser and they In 1960, I arrived at Macalester from War II. exhibited many of the same qualities. Scotland to study geography with her, Another item which attracted me was They were caring people and true teachers. upon the recommendation of the reader of about Dr. Turck. His world view was They lived their values and were true role geography at the University of St. ahead of his time and his moral leadership models to their students. Andrews, even though at that time there was very special. Jim Smail was a hit of a hero to his was no major in geography. She chal- Macalester Today is a high-quality publi- students. Although he challenged us and lenged and encouraged me as a student, cation which is very helpful in keeping us had very high standards, we found our- permitted me to do some primary research abreast of the campus and giving us news selves drawn into the subjects we studied for her, let me give lectures in a course of many friends from the past. with him. Topics that had the potential to during my final year — and gave me criti- William L. Roberts '49 be dreadfully boring were fun. I remember cal comments in the privacy of her office Tucson, Ariz. teasing him one time that he had missed afterwards. She had me hired to share the his calling as a stage performer. He re- teaching responsibilities with her for the sponded that stage performers had it easy! two-week geography section of the Macal- Food for thought He had an audience that expected to be ester African Women's Institute in the One spring day in the Grille, I came across entertained too, but the material was a lot summer of 1964, immediately after my my ethics professor, David White, with his tougher. Often when we would study we graduation. tossed salad. I asked to join him, and after would re-enact his lecture hall theatrics, She seemed genuinely pleased, perhaps wrestling a chair from someone, I sat with partly in jest, but in reality we were learn- proud, when I received the M.A. and my favorite professor. David told me about ing something. To this day I still use the Ph.D. degrees in geography and when, his project for proving that "C-E." He was knowledge I learned in his classes. (It's over the years, I published various books telling me about his belief that "Con- hard to explain, but even rabbis can make and articles. When my doctoral disserta- sciousness creates energy.'1 use of scientific knowledge.) tion was published by the University of Over a salad, I was hearing of David's Outside of the classroom he was also Chicago, it gave me great pleasure to true passion, something I'd not heard in sought after. He was one of the most popu- thank her; I listed her name after those of class. I had no idea that this lunch would lar advisers of any of the science de- my parents and before the names of others. stick in my memory. I didn't know I'd be partments. A lot of the time we sought We saw each other at many professional regretting not having pulled up a chair advice about life as much as we did about conferences over the years and we wrote to with more professors at lunches. academics. We found wise counsel each other quite often. Our last exchange The following is taken from an article about both. of letters occurred just prior to her death. I by Bill Blakcmore in Weslcyan's alumni During my junior year in the fall of 78, am so grateful for that last interchange, magazine. The examples are from I had eye surgery for a detached retina. I when each of us shared some final Claremont McKenna College's campus missed several weeks of class. I was also far thoughts. center, which Blakemore posited as a from home and recovering from an opera- Professor Johnson lives on in the hearts model for Weslcyan to promote cohesion. tion whose final results wouldn't be known of many people, I am sure, and most cer- This model wouldn't be out of place at tainly in mine. Mac either. Here are the basic points: David B. Knight '64 Elora, Ontario, Canada LETTERS continued on page 49

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2 At Macalester 21 Historic Visit on a Historic Day A new dean; the Class of '97; Hall of Fame inducts four; and Two close friends, Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter, other campus news. give Macalester a day to remember. by Jon Halvorsen 7 Quotable Quotes Geographer David Lanegran on the Mississippi flooding; 29 Libraries of Congress Gary Hines '74 on the Sounds of Blackness; and What happens when books meet computers? other noteworthy comments. by Joel Cfemmer 8 Macalester Grows 31 Macalester Yesterday in a Neighborly Way Glimpses of the college through the decades. The college's campus plan will mean expanded athletic fields, by Rebecca Ganzel and Kerry Sarnoski a new Campus Center and much more. by Jon Halvorsen 32 Alumni News 16 Border Crossings A calendar of upcoming events and photos of recent alumni gatherings. Alumni describe memorable encounters with another culture. by Jack ElHai

34 Giving Back m , mm Steve Cox 76 builds upon the work of his M Club predecessor. On the cover by Kevin Brooks Walter Mondale listens as Jimmy Carter 35 Class Notes speaks at a Sept. 10 news conference at Macalester. The latest news about those fascinating people: V Mike Habermann took the Macalester alumni. photograph. To cover the by Kevin Brooks Mondale-Carter visit, we've added eight pages to make this a 48'page issue, the largest in Macalester 48 Macrocosm Today's history. Three Class of l73ers address the topic, "From Questioning Authority to Becoming Authority."

Macalester Today Macalester College Macalester Today (Volume 82, Number 1) Director of College Relations Chair, Board of Trustees is published by Macalester College. Doug Stone Barbara Bauer Armajani '63 It is mailed free of charge to alumni and friends of the college four times a year. Executive Editor President Circulation is 25,000. Nancy A. Peterson Robert M. Gavin Jr. Managing Editor Vice President for College Advancement For change of address, please write: Jon Halvorsen David Griffith Alumni Office, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN Art Director Alumni Director 551054899. Or call (612) 696-6295. Elizabeth Edwards Karen McConkey To submit comments or ideas, write: Class Notes Editor Associate Alumni Director V Macalester Today, College Relations, at Kevin Brooks 89 Mary Smail the above address. Or call (612) 696-6452. Alumni Association President Or fax: (612) 696-6192. Jane Else Smith '67 Alumni Director Emeritus A. Phillips Beedon 78 NOVEMBER 1993 AT MACALESTER

• work closely with Dean Samatar bone in his back later in the game, forcing Second dean named m the development ot new international him to miss the rest ot his senior season. programs; He coached Macalester's freshman team in in internationalism • work closely with the provost and 1947 and enjoyed a successful 25-year other deans on faculty development. career as a teacher and head coach in Macalester has taken another step to Dassell and Detroit Lakes. strengthen its commitment to internation- Nash will continue as a full-time professor ot sociology while directing the Inter- • J. Craig Edgerton '53 of Durango, alism with President Gavin's appointment Colo. He won individual conference of Anne Sutherland to the newly created national Research Center on the fourth floor ot Carnegie, which was originally championships in two sports. In 1951, he position of dean ot international faculty took first place at the M1AC track and development. designed as a laboratory. The research center is expected to become fully func- field meet in the pole vault, and as a mem- Sutherland, a professor of anthropology, ber of the 1952-53 swimming team he will work closely with Ahmed I. Samatar, tional sometime this fall. It will have two main functions: won the state 100-yard freestyle in MIAC- the new dean ot international programs record time. A tour-year letterman on and director ot the international studies • provide students with access to data both the swimming and track teams, program. on topics that can be studied from an Edgerton was captain of the swim team in In addition, Sutherland has named Jeff international perspective. For example, 1952. He has been practicing medicine in Nash, protessor ot" sociology, director of a students study- Durango for more than 20 years. He also new International Research Center, which ing poverty, serves as an assistant clinical professor at is being established this fall in Carnegie world systems or the University of Colorado Health Sci- Science Hall tor use by both faculty and political partici- ences Center. He established and coached students. pation could a year-round AAU swim team and holds "In keeping with the strategic plan, we find data for the Colorado masters age group 50-yard are putting more emphasis on internation- class projects, or freestyle record. alism," said Provost Dan Hornbach. faculty could 'These two new positions are among the focus on a par- • George G. Hicks '48 of Pipestone, first concrete steps toward that goal. Anne ticular topic Minn. He excelled in football, basketball is well known and respected on campus for such as poverty and track. A starting end and tackle for her commitment to internationalism, her and bring data three seasons, he was named to the first enthusiasm and her vitality. She will from several team on all the All-Conference teams in complement Dean Samatar, who will nations together 1947. He also helped the Scots win three begin his duties in January. For the next for an interdisci- MIAC track championships, twice placing three years, he will focus on the curricu- plinary class on Anne Sutherland first in the conference in the shot put and lum, international studies and the student- the topic. taking third the other year. He was also a oriented parts ot internationalism, while • support faculty research. With the Anne concentrates on the faculty and lab's capabilities, faculty can pursue their institutional programs." own research without the necessity for Sutherland joined the Macalester tac- collecting primary data. utty in 1981. Her three-year appointment as dean of international faculty develop- For years, Macalester has been a mem- ment is a half-time position. She will ber of the Inter-university Consortium for continue as chair of the Anthropology Political and Social Research, and some Department, at least for the 1993-94 students and faculty have used its data. academic year, and teach one course each The lab will allow them to use the data semester. more fully. Her specific duties as dean will be to: • manage and budget for the Interna- Hall of Famers tional Research Center, international The M Club inducted four new members faculty programs and other programs; into the Macalester Athletic Hall of Fame • reorganize the Wallace speaker series on Oct. 1: to give it an international emphasis; • Winfred "Ted" Anderson '48 of De- • work with academic departments and troit Lakes, Minn. He had a short hut programs to locate candidates for the posi- outstanding football career for the Scots. tion of Humphrey Professor and interna- In 1942, the Scots' captain was named first tional visiting Wallace professors; team All-State fullback by both the Min- George Hicks '48 Milton Jahn '41 • work generally with the faculty to neapolis Star and St. Paid Pioneer Press. develop international research and study After World War II, he returned to Macal- major contributor on the basketball squad. opportunities for faculty members at uni- ester in 1946 and again was named team Hicks played and coached on a U.S. Army versities around the world; co-captain. In the season's first game, football team from 1950 to 1952. Hicks Anderson scored a touchdown and has been active in Pipestone with the blocked a punt, but he suffered a broken YMCA, Little League, coaching, the

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Campus events line Macalester has a phone number you can Building on call for information about upcoming cam- strengths pus events: (612) 696-6900. "We need strength This is a recorded information service through diversity,'1 Carlos for use with a touch telephone. You will he Mariani '79, a Minnesota able to listen to recorded messages about state legislator, told about upcoming athletic events, theater, dance, 30 high school students of music, art exhibits, alumni activities, pub- color from the St. Paul area last June in Carnegie lic lectures and other events. Each message Hall. The students will include a phone number to call during attended Macalester's business hours for more information. third "Maccess" summer We also list major upcoming events on program from June 21 to pages 32-33 of this issue. July 16. Designed to help promising students of color think about and Greek philosophy prepare for college, the program is part of the Jeremiah Reedy, professor and chair of the college's commitment to Classics Department at Macalester, deliv- multiculturalism. Mariani, ered one of the two major papers at the whose parents emigrated to the Midwest from opening session of the Fifth International Puerto Rico, spoke about Conference on Greek Philosophy. his own experiences as a The theme of the conference, held in Macalester student of August on the island of Samos in the color and his work as a Aegean, was "Philosophy and Orthodoxy." state representative. Reedy's presentation dealt with attempts by some scholars to remove Greek meta- physical concepts from Christian theology. Later in the week, Reedy's paper had library board and as president of the was named to the All-Conference team as the distinction of being read a second school board. a freshman. Last season, he led Macalester time, in modern Greek, by the president • Milton W. Jahn '41 of St. Paul. A to a 9-8-1 record by scoring nine goals and of the sponsoring Association for Greek Letterman in football, basketball and base- assisting on nine Philosophy at a special session on the hall, he excelled particularly in football, others. He was island oi Patmos. helping the Scots to winning records in chosen the Most 1938-40. He was a linebacker on the Valuable Player in The real thing 1939 team which held conference cham- the conference. pion St. Thomas to just 69 yards in total Going into this Sixty mathematicians representing 12 offense — a Macalester record which still season, he had scored nations and 17 states took over Bigelow stands. As a senior, the Scots' captain led 25 goals — second Hall and made it their home for the last Macalester to a 5-1-1 record and earned on the school's all- week of June. hrst-team All-State honors. He enjoyed a time list — and held They took a paddlewheel boat trip down the school record long and successful career in St. Paul as a Jennifer Tonkin '93 the Mississippi, attended a Minnesota teacher and principal. with 29 assists. Twins game and ate a barbecue dinner. Tonkin (Bellevue, Wash.) earned three More importantly, they discussed serious All-Conference certificates in cross coun- issues in mathematics. The occasion was Athletes of the year try and eight in track during her years at the 17th Summer Symposium in Real Matt Highfield '94, an outstanding soccer Macalester. She won outdoor conference Analysis. player, and Jennifer Tonkin '93, the latest championships in both the 5,000-meter Real analysis is the branch of pure in a long line of superb distance runners at and 10,000-meter races. She achieved All- mathematics in which limiting processes Macalester, were America status in her final collegiate com- and notions of infinity are given serious named the 1992-93 petition — last spring's NCAA Division consideration. The adjective "real" refers Male and Female III track and field championships. to the fact that these studies are done in Athletes of the Year Here are the previous M Club Athletes the context of the Euclidean spaces famil- by the M Club. of the Year: iar from geometry. They were Karen Saxe, assistant professor oi math- honored Oct. 1 • 1992: Mark Omodt and Jane Ruliffson ematics and computer science at Macal- at the M Club's Hall • 1991: Roger Bridge and Cindy Nelson ester, organized the symposium, which is considered the premier conference of its of Fame dinner. • 1990: Tom Kreutzian and Jane Ruliffson Highfield (Win- type. It was sponsored by the editorial • 1989: Mike Vidmar and Kathy Korn chester, England) Matt Highfield '94

NOVEMBER 1993 AT MACALESTER board ot the journal Real Analysis Ex- "I was very impressed," Prince said. "The academic reputation among all national change, published by Michigan State Uni- students were outstanding." liberal arts colleges. Other categories used versity. It is the only classical real analysis Abraham, working with biology Pro- to rank colleges in the annual ratings in- conference that traditionally draws partici- fessor Lin Aanonsen, did research on clude student selectivity, faculty resources, pants from North America, Western Eu- spinal cord pain transmission in rats, a financial resources, graduation rate and rope, Eastern and Central Europe, and the kind of research alumni satisfaction. countries of the former Soviet Union. which could eventu- The magazine also mentions Macalester 'The past decade has witnessed a really benefit patients as one ot the colleges which is making emergence ot classical real analysis as one with cancer pain, for community service part of the curriculum. of the core sub-disciplines ot mathematics,11 example. Scientists Amherst replaces Williams as No. 1 Saxe said. "Long taught as a core course at at the University of among the top 25 national liberal arts both the undergraduate and graduate lev- Minnesota were colleges in the latest rankings. The only els, classical real analysis is regaining its so impressed by his addition to the top 25 is the College of more traditional role at the intellectual findings that they Holy Cross, which replaces Lafayette. root of both modern applied and pure expect to include mathematics." them in a soon-to- be-published Ethan Abraham '94 in the rui research paper bearing his name as co- Terry Turner '94 (Tampa, Fla.) spent A special friendship author. Abraham is majoring in biology countless hours in Israel doing the dirty Luther Prince wanted to repay his good and psychology. work of archaeology. She carried buckets friend George Dixon in some way for help- Mestey is working on a year-long of dirt, she hoed dirt, she sifted dirt. ing him with a business problem many honors project tor biology Professor Jan "It's a lot of hard, tedious work," she years ago. Did Dixon have any suggestions? Serie focusing on the AIDS epidemic recalled. "If you're not really into the con- Prince, who is black, and Dixon, who is among Puerto Rican women. She spent cept, 1 wouldn't recommend it. It's not white, put their heads together over lunch. part of the summer working in a physics 'fun'.... [But] I had a great time." As a result, two Macalester students of lab at Macalester and the balance of it at For Turner and another Macalester color spent last summer engaged in scien- an AIDS clinic in student, Tony Levenstein '94 (New York tific research. Both students hope to attend Puerto Rico. She City), the four weeks they spent last sum- medical school after Macalester, and their has an individually mer at the site of an ancient city and at a summer experiences may help them pre- designed interde- nearby kibbutz provided a chance to learn pare tor it and also enhance their prospects. partmental major archaeological methods and study the Prince is inner city business develop- in science, tech- history ot the land of Israel. ment director for Urban Ventures, a non- nology and ethics, For J. Andrew Overman, who joined the profit community development corporation with a minor in Macalester faculty this fall as an assistant in Minneapolis, and Dixon is retired chair- biology and a core professor of classics, the dig is an adven- man and chief executive officer of First in women's studies. ture he's been involved in ever since The stipends will Bank Systems Inc. Both are concerned Wamaid Mestey '94 graduate school. He is executive director about the relatively small number of scien- support a total ot ot the continuing excavations project at tists of color. "If you look at the advanced four more students of color at Macalester Jotapata. Destroyed in 67 A.D., the city degree recipients in the sciences and in during the next two summers. was the center of the first Jewish revolt math, there are very few people of color," against the Romans in Galilee. It was Dixon said. "We both thought this is made famous by the writings of the Jewish wrong, and that we ought to do something U.S. News rankings historian Josephus, who claimed to be one about it by encouraging young people of Macalester moved up to 18th in "academic of the leaders of the revolt in Galilee. color to become interested in math and reputation" as well as into the first quartile Josephus surrendered to the Roman gen- 1 science. ' among national liberal arts colleges in the eral Vespasian, who became emperor two Inspired by his conversation with Dixon, latest U.S. Neivs & World Report rankings. years later, and spent the rest of his life Prince worked with The Minneapolis The seventh annual guide to "America's working for the imperial family in Rome. Foundation to create special summer re- Best Colleges" appeared on newsstands in In 1992, Overman and his archaeologi- search stipends for students of color to late September. cal teams were the first to excavate the collaborate with faculty in the natural After the listing of the top 25 colleges, site. They found evidence that confirmed sciences. The grants came from a fund at Macalester is grouped with nine other the battle and siege ot Jotapata. "Josephus the foundation that Prince and his wife, colleges in the first quartile. Although the isn't that trustworthy, and you can't as- Evelyn, established. exact number does not appear in the sume that any ot [his chronicle] is true," Although neither man has any direct guide, U.S. News told the college that Overman said. ties to Macalester, both came to the cam- Macalester ranks 34th overall. This year, Overman and his colleagues pus this fall to meet the two students — In 1992, Macalester ranked 24th in and students sought to uncover the city's Ethan Abraham '94 (Columbia, S.C.) and academic reputation and was listed in the complicated defense structures. Jotapata is Wamaid Mestey '94 (San Juan, Puerto second quartile — in 39th place overall — part of a regional archaeological analysis Rico) — and see for themselves the impact among liberal arts colleges. of Galilee. that the research experience had on them. In the latest rankings, Macalester and "One of the things that a place like Barnard are tied for 18th in the category of Jotapata is teaching us is that life in Ga-

MACALESTER TODAY AT MACALESTER lilcc, during the period that produced land of his ancestors. The dig "was a lot of Judaism and Christianity as we know it, hard work very early in the morning. Give peace a chance was a lot more sophisticated and hustling What was so enthralling, however, was "An unbelievable moment" — that's how than we ever could have imagined," that Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze and Yaron Deckel described it. Khaled Abu Overman said. "These were big places. We Bedouins all worked together, peacefully." Aker called it a "dream... about to come uncovered several really spectacular homes The courses were offered through the true." this season. Judaism and Christianity came University of Rochester, where Overman Deckel, an Israeli radio reporter, and out of a cosmopolitan, hustling — and taught before coming to Macalester and Abu Aker, a Palestinian newspaper overpopulated, by the way — area of the which helps run the dig; the credits will reporter, both expressed astonishment at world. Just tor starters, that puts a much count toward the students' Macalester the Israeli-PLO peace agreement in different spin on how I understand these degrees. September. texts and religions." Overman, who takes about 50 students The two journalists have something else Jotapata is also a "teaching dig" for of all ages to Israel each year, believes that in common: Both were fellows this year of Overman, who takes students to Israel archaeology is the quintessential liberal Macalester's World Press Institute. Joined each year. The students were in the field arts experience. by seven other each day by 6 a.m., worked until 1 p.m. — "Archaeology has this aspect to it which journalists from in sweltering heat — then returned to the 1 think is intriguing: You are living in Brazil, Hungary, kibbutz, where everyone stayed, for meals, another culture from your own, and yet at China, Kenya, relaxation and evening lectures. the same time you are literally reaching Latvia, Sweden and "It was really rewarding to he involved hack into the past and recovering still South Africa, they in putting together pieces of the past," said another culture," he said. "Stratified cul- arrived at Macal- Turner, an English and religious studies ture or layers of culture is a really rich ester in late June for major. "Granted, you're doing it an inch at experience .... How do you hold his- four months of study a time, and it takes forever. But we went tory — another culture? It sounds a little and travel through- to a Lot of [archeological] sites around romantic, hut when somebody holds an oil out the U.S. They Yaron Deckel Israel and I felt like I was very much a part lamp from [an ancient] living room, you were scheduled to of what was going on there." can see in their face that you really hit take part in WPI's 32nd annual "com- Levenstein said the experience con- home. They're never going to look at mencement" Oct. 29 at Macalester. A firmed his interest in religious studies and these people and this period the same newspaper editor who would have been early Judaism and enabled him to visit the way again." the 10th fellow, Gordana Knezevic of Sarajevo, told WPI in June that the war in Bosnia would prevent her from participating in this year's program. Deckel works in Jerusalem as a reporter and editor for Israeli Defense Radio, the Israeli military's radio network. Abu Aker, the first Palestinian to hold a WPI fellowship, covers political developments for Al-Fajr in East Jerusalem's occupied territories. They gave their Khaled Abu Aker views of the Israeli-PLO peace agreement in side-by- side opinion pieces in the Sept. 19 St. Paul Pioneer Press. Both acknowledged that many obstacles remain. But they shared a fundamental hope. "It is the destiny of both the Palestin- ians and the Israelis to share the land instead of trying to destroy each other," Abu Aker said. He added that "giving peace a chance, working hard and demon- strating good will are the only ways to succeed in having peace in the region." Deckel wrote that the "time for peace has come, and we should not allow it to Professor Andy Overman, left, in Galilee last summer with Terry Turner '94 and slip away." • Tony Levenstein '94

NOVEMBER 1993 AT MACALESTER

A few facts and faces from the Class of '97: 454 strong

• 2,935 applicants (highest total ever, • 71 U.S. students of color, 15.6 class Macalester has ever enrolled," says surpassing last year's record by 7 percent) percent of class (second-largest group Dean ot Admissions William M. Shain) • 454 entering students (second-largest of multicultural students in more than • 48 percent listed one or more entering class since 1977) 15 years) commitments to community service • 50.93 percent admission rate (third • 21.9 percent from Minnesota (most (56 students pursued environmental issues, most competitive in Macalester history) in five years) No. 1 ("in the list) • 78 international students, 15.6 • 48 National Merit Scholars percent of the new student total, fromall - (third-highest total in 15 years) time high of 50 nations • 91 who served as captains of a varsity sport ("possibly the most athletically able

Charles Baxter '69, above, a well-known fiction writer and a professor at the University of Michigan, speaks to new students in September in Weyerhaeuser Chapel. Some first-year students read his novel First Light over the summer and met during Macalester's orientation week to discuss it. Left: New students and their families were invited to a reception on the lawn in front of Old Main. Here, Tweeps Pott-Phillips '97 (New York City), far left, and her parents, Suzanne and Bruce Poli, talk with Paul Anderson '96 (Mountain View, Calif.). Below: Chemistry Professor Wayne Wolsey speaks to three first-year students (from left): Sarah Newby (Portland, Ore.), Kristen Nelson (Forest Lake, Minn.) and Kim Miller (Duluth, Minn.).

'You bring many qualities which will enrich the Macalester community. Indeed, many of the qualities which all of us cherish most can rarely, if ever, be quantified: curiosity, courage, enthusiasm for learning and for living, humility and loyalty to friends, ideals and institutions.' — William M. Shain, dean of admissions, addressing the Class of '97 on Sept. 1

MACALESTER TODAY QUOTABLE QUOTE S The river rises; voices of women; calling the circle

Here are some of the noteworthy comments made reeendy on and around the campus:

UT) HOPLE THINK OF THE RIVER AS THEIR ENEMY. JL They fight the river, dike the river, pol- lute the river, ignore the river. Now the river is taking hack its old places. You can see the old marshes coming hack in the farmers' fields, all the places where the duck ponds used to he. It's almost like a ghost. The water is saying, 'This is where 1 used to he. This used to be my place.1 " David Lanegran, Macalester geography professor, quoted in a]uly 10 New York Times article on the Mississippi River flooding that devastated the Midwest

: NEED TO GO RACK TO THINKING HOW "Woto put values at the center of lite, how to order politics and social institutions so things are fair and just. The labor move- ment, with its concepts of sisterhood and brotherhood, can ensure that fairness and he a wonderful vehicle tor a better life for all of us." Peter Rachleff, professor and labor histo- Gary Hines '74: an "ongoing relationship" between the Sounds rian at Macalester, quoted in a lengthy profile of Blackness and Macalester of him in the Aug. I St. Paul Pioneer Press by Mary Ann Grossmann '60. The article energy, and we work together to define and in the tower of his castle, High Winds, discussed Rachleff s recently published book, meet the goals of the group. These making the final selection of articles that Hard-Pressed in the Heartland, about the circles operate on three principles: Leader- would appear in the next issue of his be- Hormel strike in Austin, Minn, ship is floating, responsibility is shared and loved magazine." ultimate authority is spiritual." Richard Lingeman, executive editor UrT"lHE ELECTRONIC VERSIONS OF 'THE DOG Christina Baldwin '68, author and of The Nation, reviewing Theirs Was the L ate my homework' are extraordinary. activist, speaking last June after receiving a Kingdom: Lila and DeWitt Wallace and And now these excuses come on Distinguished Citizen Citation from the Story of the Reader's Digest by John voice mail." Macalester Heidenry. The review appeared on the front English Professor Harley Henry, who has page of the Aug. 22 New York Times Book taught at Macalester since 1966, telling UHP HERE'S BEEN AN EXPLOSION OF Review. alumni (with tongue in cheek) how personal -L [writing by] women of color, both computers and a new telephone system have fiction and non-fiction. To the brothers [in O THIS DAY, WE [MEMBERS OF THE changed, or perhaps not changed, the campus the audience], I really encourage you Sounds of Blackness] still occasionally to listen to the voices of women of color, rehearse over in Janet Wallace [Fine Arts UT CONTINUE TO LIVE THE QUESTION I because there's a lot of strength and wis- Center], and we trust that's an ongoing x began asking at Macalester 25 years dom there.1' relationship .... I would implore you, every ago. I devote my writing and teaching to Carlos Mariani '79, a Minnesota time you [in the Macalester community] helping other people ask the questions they state legislator from St. Paul. Mariani, who hear of something that we accomplished or need to ask in order to guide their own is of Puerto Rican descent, was speaking tried to accomplish, that you take pride in lives. Right now, my work is at a turning June 24 to about 30 high school students of that, that you take ownership in that. Be- point. My work is homed in on one single color enrolled in Macalester's "Maccess" cause truly, it is a testament to the college's task that is contained in the phrase, 'To program. commitment to excellence and to diversity call the circle.' and to cultural understanding." "I see the circle as the form which can a B WITT WALLACE WAS A DIFFIDENT, Gary Hines '74, director of the Sounds of change society from within. Almost every D shy man with a Garhoesque aversion Blackness, upon receiving a Distinguished weekend of the year, somewhere in this to publicity, who enjoyed high living hut Citizen Citation from the college last June. continent, I am sitting in a circle with a gave away most of the hundreds of mil- The Grammy Award-winning choir began in group of people. We spread out a center- lions he made (the Wallaces had no chil- 1969 as the Macalester College Black Choir piece; we focus the energy on the rim, dren), largely to educational institutions, and evolved into the Sounds of Blackness when where we are peers, and on the center, beginning with Macalester College. One he took over as director in 1971. • where there is the mystery of our collected senses that Wally was happiest sequestered

NOVEMBER 1993 nws Neighborly Way

NI, eighbors help shape the college's campus plan, which calls for expanded athletic fields, a new 1 Campus Center and a host of improvements to educational buildings

by Jon Halvorsen

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BEASLEY PHOTOGRAPHY INC. Change and continuity: Macalester is expanding its boundaries while keeping its ^ ^ next few years, small, residential character. alumni returning to Macalester will find: • a campus which has expanded westward to allow for more outdoor athletic fields; • a new Campus Drive between St. Clair and Grand avenues which will serve as the main artery through the campus; • a new Campus Center which will serve as a hub of campus life outside the classroom; • renovations and alterations to Olin and Rice science buildings; • an expanded Field House; • renovations of the theater, art and music buildings at the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center. These and other changes in the college's physical environment are all part of Macalester's campus plan. The Board of Trustees will look at more details of the plan in February, and some of its features are still subject to change. The campus plan

NOVEMBER 1993 stems from Macalester's 10-year strategic plan, with the city, task force, Community Council and approved by the hoard in May 1992, to ensure that neighborhood residents — partly because he has the college has the facilities and resources necessary lived in the neighborhood to uphold and enhance its mission. Although the since 1967 college will expand by 4.6 acres — primarily in and is on a the southwest corner of campus to support athletic Below: The existing first-name alley between Macalester program needs — Macalester will maintain its basis with 1 and Vernon streets, north residential character with an on-campus enrollment many resi- of about 1,650 full-time students. of St. Clair Avenue. dents. "This D Above: The new Campus From the beginning, the college worked closely experience a Drive, replacing the with residents of the adjacent "Tangletown" neigh- confirms for alley, will serve me that in the a bicyclists and a pedestrians 1990s, fora as well as college to do o E ] a I : motorists. This anything about a a is an artist's its borders, it a early sketch has to do so in 33 and the actual a cooperative Campus Drive spirit with its is likely to look neighbors," considerably Aslanian said. different. "What the city thought was a herculean task went pretty smoothly. We got borhood to address their concerns about the cam- our expansion pus plan. Tangletown residents, Grand Avenue approved. But that business owners, city officials, District 14 Commu- doesn't end our nity Council members and college representatives relationship with served on a task force that met for nine months to our neighbors. discuss and resolve such issues as parking, traffic We're continuing and campus boundaries. to work with 2 The final plan, which was approved last May by them." the St. Paul Planning Commission, incorporates Mark Vaught '69. numerous changes suggested by the task force. "The a St. Paul attorney, plan really changed because of neighborhood in- is a member of the put," said Donna Kelly, a resident of Tangletown St. Paul Planning who serves as Macalester's neighborhood liaison on Commission. He is the plan. also chair of its College Treasurer Paul Aslanian served as Neighborhood Plan Macalester's principal spokesperson on the plan ning Committee,

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'._ which considered and recommended approval of at immediate needs with the neighborhood but Macalester's application to expand its boundaries. projecting 10 to 20 years. That engenders confi- "1 was impressed by the interaction between the dence. It says, 'We're here for the long haul; you're college and the neighborhood — which was posi- here for the long haul. Let's work together.1 " tive, although not universally so, "Macalester is a because a tew neighbors were very strong anchor upset — and by the college's \The in the neighbor- sensitivity toward the neighbors hood," said and trying CO integrate their con- ampMsplan Alexander cerns into this proposal," Vaught "Sandy" Hill '57, said. He sees the campus plan as C assistant to Presi- 1 Amherst Street "a real positive and rational ap- dent Gavin, who 2 Athletic fields proach. It would have been easy has worked closely 3 Cambridge Avenue for a college the size of Macalester on the campus 4 Campus Center (proposed site) to throw its weight around. But plan. "This plan the college has the wisdom not to 5 Campus Drive gives us the op- do that." 6 Chapel portunity to im- 7 Field House "This is one of the best plan- 8 Grand Avenue prove our physical ning efforts I've ever seen," Dan 9 Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center space, but it also Cornejo, head of St. Paul's city 10 Library maintains planning division, told the St. 11 Lincoln Avenue Paul Pioneer Press last December. 12 Macalester Street "They're not only looking 13 Mac Market 14 Old Main 15 Olin and Rice Halls 16 Princeton Avenue 17 St. Clair Avenue 18 Snelling Avenue 19 Student Union 20 Summit Avenue 21 Tennis Courts 22 Vernon Street

11 -, r 93 the stability and special qualities of both the cam- large number or people try out lor a varsity pus and the neighborhood. It we strengthen an sport, we want to have a junior varsity team. already vital, handsome campus, that lias a positive "And intramural sports are obviously a impact on the neighborhood." major part of having expanded athletic fields," Here is a look at the major features of the plan: Andrews added. "We don't have enough room right now for all the intramural activity. One of the goals of the Athletic Department is for every member of the campus community to have the chance to participate in something they feel comfortable doing, whether it's foot- ickthletic fields and ball or Frisbee." Campus Drive The expansion will make room tor a base- hall field (which will have multiple uses), six The college will extend its athletic fields to the tennis courts and more practice fields. In all, west by expanding to the alley that now runs be- 12 houses will be removed from the Macal- tween Vernon and Macalester streets, north of St. ester Street area, all of them owned by the Clair. Most of Macalester Street between St. Clair college. Macalester is working with the Twin and Princeton will be vacated (except for three Cities chapter of Habitat for Humanity and homes on the southeast corner). with a land trust to donate as many bouses as In addition, the alley will become a private road, those groups can find sites for. The residential The college's $1.5 Campus Drive (the name is tentative). A main character of Vernon Street will be protected million track and field entrance on St. Clair, attractive landscaping and by landscape buffering. Most of Macalester's facility, featuring a new additional green space will signal to visitors that residential language-houses are already on Scoreboard, new lighting Vernon and will remain there for the foresee- system and a larger they are entering a college campus. Campus Drive playing area for soccer, will serve bicyclists and pedestrians as well as mo- able future. was completed in 1992. torists, and will link both ends of campus together. Campus Drive and the athletic field expan- Macalester Street is in Because access to Campus Drive will be only from sion are planned for completion by the fall of the distance. See St. Clair on the south and Macalester Street on the 1994 or the spring of 1995, depending on opposite page for a view north, the college hopes it will help reduce traffic in in the opposite when the new grass planted for the athletic direction. the Tancletown neighborhood. fields is ready. ampus Center The Campus Center is intended to become in many ways the centerpiece of the campus. One proposed site is the northwest corner of Grand and Snelling avenues, which is now the site of Winton Health Services. The architectural plans are still being prepared, but a task force headed by Dean of Students Edward DeCarbo has made its planning recommendations to the architects. The Campus Center is expected to give "central place and visibility [to] those endeavors that are essential to the academic and social mission" of Macalester: internationalism, The expansion of the athletic fields is intended to multiculturalism and community service. benefit not only Macalester's intercollegiate sports The building may be attached to Kagin Commons teams but intramural and club sports as well as in order to create a multi-purpose student activities health and wellness programs. "In 1970, we had only center. At the same time, the Student Union build- men's intercollegiate teams," said Ken Andrews '72, ing across Grand Avenue will be renovated as a Macalester's athletic director. "With all the women's further extension of student services. teams — in Softball, soccer and other sports — we've The Campus Center may include the Interna- nearly doubled the participation in intercollegiate tional Center (now on Summit Avenue); an audito- sports but still have the same space. We also have a rium of 250 to 350 fixed seats to accommodate him lno-cut' policy for our sports teams, so if we have a and multi-media presentations (and replace the present auditorium in Olin Hall); an information/

I 2 MACALESTER T O D A Y A view of the existing reception area at the entrance to provide a welcom- sentatives and architects are reviewing schemes for athletic fields and the new ing environment tor visitors and community mem- the new spaces. track facility from bers; a campus dining room primarily for faculty, This project is to begin in 1994 or 1995. Macalester Street. The staff and visitors; student facilities such as informal college will extend the lounges and music practice rooms; a resource room athletic fields to the west by expanding to the alley tor student organizations with meeting space and that now runs between work space; and space for both Macalester historical Macalester and Vernon and art objects. 'pield House streets, north of St. Clair. This project is planned for completion in the next two to four years. expansion The existing Field House, built in 1954, will be renovated and expanded south into the area cur- rently occupied by three tennis courts. Andrews is Qlin and Rice heading a task force that is still working on the plans, but the project is likely to include a competi- science buildings tion arena, an indoor track, a training room, varsity locker rooms, and six courts for volleyball, basket- Both buildings are scheduled for a complete reno- ball and tennis rather than the present five. The vation to provide additional lab, teaching and gym will also have a new entrance for visitors. The office space and Co replace the outdated mechanical Physical Plant Department will be relocated to a and electrical systems. About two-thirds of the basement at the south end of the expanded Field project budget will be spent on the renovation House, which will allow delivery access from efforts; the remaining one-third will go toward new Snelling Avenue and thus eliminate truck lab, classroom and office space. College repre-

NOVEMBER 993 traltie from the neighborhood streets. In addition, methods. At the same time, a new entry lobby and the Physical Plant, which has had its shops scat- reception area will hll in the courtyard between tered across the campus for decades, will have these two buildings in order to create a proper area consolidated, efficient and up-to-date work spaces tor the display of art and for the arrival o( and offices. theatergoers. This project is planned tor the next three CO This project is planned for the next three to five years. six years. iscellaneous parking improvements Some parallel parking adjacent to Campus Drive will be added. In order to control traffic along Cam- bridge Street and to promote the new Campus Drive as the primary route through campus, the college will close the Cambridge Street entrance to the 168-car parking lot on the west side of the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center. At the same time, additional landscape buffering will screen the parking lot from the residential neighborhood along Cam- bridge Street. This project is planned for the next two to six years.

The Macalester women's varsity soccer team, wearing the light- colored jerseys, in a V%enovations game at home this fall. More than anything else, the dramatic to 77 Macalester St. growth in women's participation has The college plans to create a small addition on the required more space for west side of 77 Macalester in order to make the sports of all kinds. existing building fully accessible to the disabled. To make room, the house at 1649 Lincoln (owned by the college) will be removed. The plan also calls for the creation of up to 15 new parking spaces. This project is planned tor the next one to two years.

Jfi ine Arts Center The college will renovate the theater, art and music buildings, which form the western portion of the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, to make them more suitable for current activities and teaching

MACALESTER TODAY of the Field House with an i* estimated $3 million, 20-year bond issue. Aslanian said the college will have an accurate esti- mate of the total cost of the campus plan by this coming February, when all the architectural and engineering plans are prepared. "We'll know then The college how much it will cost is still considering other and how long it will proposals for north of Grand Avenue, including a take," he said. possible new residential facility on the site oi the "Any college can use tax-exempt financing as present, antiquated residence hall at 37 Macalester an interim step," Aslanian added. "But ultimately, St. The southwest corner of Grand Avenue and the successful college, in order to cover all of its The residential character Macalester Street, adjacent to the Mac Market, has costs — including servicing its debt — must de- of Vernon and Princeton been formally incorporated into the campus bound- pend on a healthy mix of revenue from student streets, shown as they ary, and the college hopes to develop ideas for charges, alumni support and endowment income. look now in the photo better linking the campus and the retail businesses. I don't know of a single successful college which is above, will be protected Aslanian expects that Macalester will pay for the an exception to this general rule." • by landscape buffering. An artist's early sketch establishment of Campus Drive and the expansion suggests one possibility.

NO V EMBER 1993 15 ©order Encounters with Another Culture

c'ollectively, Macalester people have seemingly lived everywhere, met everyone and learned everything.

More than anything else, though, they have a reputation for successfully

crossing cultural boundaries and learning from the experience.

We asked a number of alumni to relate their

most memorable experiences in trekking across cultural lines.

"Tell us a story," we said. Here are the tales they told.

(More stories will appear in Februarys Macalester Today.)

by Jack El-Hai

I 6 MACALESTER TODAY Kjell and Maria Bergh at home in Edina, Minn.

iven though J 11 hate dancing, we got out on the dance floor. The music stopped and the band sat down.'

Dancing through apartheid: gether in a room. One day I was out on the beach and had the room key. Maria asked at the front desk for another key to our room. The attendant Kjell Bergh called her by name without having met her. fj Kjell Bergh, chairman of the board of Bergh We tested apartheid in the restaurant of a large \J International Holdings Inc. of Minneapolis hotel. I went up and reserved a table. I told the staff and a Macalester trustee, was horn in Norway. In it was for a very special occasion, and I asked for a 196S he married Maria Bergh, a Tanzanian. They table near the window or at the front ot the restau- have two children. rant. They assured me there was no problem. When Maria and I arrived for dinner, they took a look at Because we have a multi-racial family, people are us and huddled together. They marched us to a always asking for our opinion on apartheid. In dark corner behind some ornamental trees. After 1981, we made a trip to South Africa to expose that, we really wanted to make a point. So, even ourselves to it. We didn't think it was intellectually though I hate dancing, we got out on the dance honest to spout off about it without first-hand floor. The music stopped and the band sat down. knowledge. This trip let us gain first-hand impressions that Once there, we felt that we were under surveil- we could later use to discuss specific incidents. lance much of the time. In Durban we stayed at a Even though things have changed in South Africa, very large international hotel where the rules of apartheid continues to exist in the heads of narrow- apartheid were unofficially suspended — in other minded people, in the U.S. and other countries hotels we could have been arrested for staying to- as well. jack El-Hai is a Twin Cities writer who contributes frequently to Macalester Today and other national and regional publications. His booh, Minnesota Collects, was published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press last year. NOVEMBER 1993 Strong women and butterflies: cided they can contribute by giving back to the community — by being politically active. Older women are doing that, too. One young woman described her Sarah Fitzsimmons mother as like a butterfly, coming out of her cocoon, I While a student at Macalester, Sarah becoming more involved. \JLJ Fitzsimmons taught English as a second Now I work in rural Nebraska, where there's an language to junior and senior high school students in St. influx of Mexicans in a traditionally white commu- Paul and, for her honors project, studied the effect oj nity. People here wonder why the newcomers don't immigration to America on Hmong women, an ethni- speak English and "blend in" better. My experience Sarah Fitesimmons in cally distinct group that came in large numbers from tells me it takes time to blend in and learn a new 1992 with members of the Laos after the Vietnam War. Her essay — "Ntsee language. At the same time, the existing community Hmong family in St. Paul Tyee's Daughters," referring to a mythic figure in needs to recognize and respect the culture and lan- who "adopted" her: Ker Hmong culture — won first prize in the 1992 Ida B. guage of a growing number of new community mem- Xiong and her daughters, bers. They aren't like everyone else, they shouldn't Nou Vang and Khou Davis Ethnic Heritage Award competition, sponsored Vang, right. by the Immigration History Research Center at the have to try to be and they should not be made to feel like less of a person because they are not.

A meeting with Martin: Schulke Flip Schulke, a photo- journalist who lives in West Palm Beach, Fla., took thousands of photos of Dr. Martin Luther King]r. between 1955 and the civil rights leader's assassi- nation in 1968. He has published two books about King: Martin Luther King Jr.: A Documen- tary — Montgomery to Memphis (1976) and King Remembered (1986).

I first met Dr. King in 1958, when I had to photograph him at a Miami church for Ebony 'hey aren't University of Minnesota. She now teaches English as a magazine. I had already read his first hook of ser- second language in Norfolk, Neb. mons and was impressed by his idea that anger T like everyone begets anger, and love begets love. When 1 shook I was "adopted" by a Hmong family who later his hand, I mentioned my thoughts on his book. He else and they helped me with my history project at Macalester. invited me to come over to where he was staying in shouldn't have to They saw me as a single woman, 20 years old, with Miami and talk. no family. They figured I needed someone to look I was 28, and he was just a year older. We sat try to be.' atter me. talking philosophy all night. He convinced me that I had a preconception about them: that in white people simply didn't see black people. They Hmong society males dominated and women were didn't see their heartbreak or degradation in our powerless. Instead, I found very strong women, not society. victims. Their role in America had changed dra- He gave an example. "You don't see anything in matically and is still evolving. They are becoming the press about segregation," he said. "It isn't photo- less and less isolated. What 1 initially viewed as graphed." I told him that in order to photograph merely traditional roles for Hmong women — such something you have to know what's happening as making crafts or taking care of trading within ahead of time, to get your camera ready and focused. their community — has now given them the It isn't like reporting, where you don't have to be chance to act as bread-winners in their families. present and can ask witnesses atter the fact. Photog- Granted, many of their cultural traditions remain, raphers have to be there. but they're pushing and questioning their tradi- King said he hadn't thought about that. After- tional identity. wards, he started calling me on the phone. And I The younger Hmong women are having a hard began to really see what he was talking about in time working out how they fit in the Hmong com- non-violent demonstrations. munity. They're trying to find new ways to get Plenty of other people shook hands with him positive strokes from the community. They've de- there at the church, hut he talked with me because my education had broadened my mind and made me

MACALESTER TODAY stretch my legs and walk the aisles. During several of my strolls I bumped into a flight attendant and we talked a bit. Golden- skinned and calm, she had a marvelous aura about her. As we spoke, she also struck me as internationally minded, one of the fortunate young Koreans able to travel the world, tor at that time the Korean government would not issue passports to its citizens except tor business trips and limited study abroad. I passed the time reading and talking with the American woman next to me. As the plane neared Seoul, I took one last stroll and again bumped into the flight attendant. As she handed out toothbrushes, I heard my voice ask her if she would be in Seoul the Flip Schulke '54 next day. When she replied that she would, I (inset at left) took many photos of Martin suggested — with what for me was unheard Luther King, including of boldness — that we get together for some the one on this page. sightseeing. She said she had just moved to Below: Paul Wadden '79 Seoul and didn't know the city well. and his wife, Mee Hey Slow when it comes to social clues, I Chang, on a visit to the U.S. earlier this year. plunged forward. "That's great," I said. "We can go to some places you've never seen before." Without giving her a chance to reply, I added, "Meet me in the lobby of the Koreana Hotel at one o'clock tomorrow here is afternoon. OK?" V V your wife?" "Maybe," she said. I figured that Koreans, like Japanese, sel- she kept asking. dom say "no" directly. Obviously, she would I thought she was want to read. I felt never show up. The next day, I took a bus down- able to communicate town tor a round of sightseeing. I glanced at my teasing me.' with King knowledgeably on his level, and that made him want to communicate with me. Meeting him was the most important thing that's happened in my life.

The woman who said maybe: Paul Wadden ^\ Paul Wadden lives in Tokyo and f \J teaches English at International Christian University. His articles on Far East politics and culture have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, and his poems have appeared in more than 60 literary journals.

Cross-cultural understanding is highly valued these days, hut I think there's also something to be said for just accepting that wherever two cultures meet, signals will probably get crossed. I had such an encounter in 1986, returning from the U.S. to Japan, via Korea. The 16-hour, non-stop flight from New York to Seoul is one of the longest in the world; I got up often to NOVEMBER 1993 T 9 watch — 12:45 — and thought there was nothing Seven years after our trans-Pacific meeting, Mee to be lost by dropping in at the Koreana Hotel Hey Chang and 1 live in Tokyo, where she works as before walking around Seoul. Fifteen minutes in the a translator and I teach English at a university, I lobby was all I needed to confirm my cultural in- still haven't figured out exactly when "yes" means sight that in Asia "maybe" means "no." Stepping on yes, "no" means no, and what "maybe" means — the escalator, I headed down toward the street — except that when my wife says it, that's exactly and gliding by me on the way up, with a slight wave what she means. of her hand, was a beautiful woman in a blue hat, the flight attendant. I did not think of We spent that afternoon strolling through the A lesson in Wisconsin: I myself as naive, gardens oi the imperial palace and meandering through the South Gate market. In addition to her but after that, composure and curiosity, she possessed a playful Jerry Fisher nothing has really sense ot humor. "Where is your wife?" she kept Jerry K. Fisher is a professor of history and asking. 1 thought she was teasing me, implying that communications studies at Macalester. His been a shock to me/ I was already over the hill because I was unmarried specialty is Japan and U.$.-Japanese relations. He is married to Aiko Hiraiwa Fisher, a senior instructor in Japanese at Macalester and a native of Japan. They have homes in St. Paul and Tokyo.

In the last 35 years, I've lived abroad 14 or 15 years altogether, it you add up all the months. I'm also married to a Japanese, and of course, there are lots of things I could talk about in terms of adjust- ment there. But it's hard for me to sort out Co what degree those are personality adjustments that everybody goes through in marriage and how much are culturally bound. But when it comes down to it, the biggest shock I had, culture-wise, didn't happen abroad. It happened in the summer of 1955 in Wisconsin, when I was 18. I had just started college [at Northwestern University]. I was involved in the Presbyterian youth organization and we had raised funds to send a black clergyman to Africa to see what was going on with Presbyterian missions there. It was the first time a black representative from the Presbyterian church in America had visited Africa. This clergyman and his family were invited to our summer conference to tell about his experiences. He must have been in his 30s; he had a son in fifth or sixth grade and a lovely wife. They came all the way from Brooklyn, New York. We had a wonderful week. We got to know him pretty well. At the end oi the week, I don't know how it came out, but we started talking about more personal things. He said it was a relief for his family to get to the summer camp because they had such a hard time on the way. I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "We weren't able to stay at any motel anywhere along the line." From Brooklyn to Wis- consin, he and his family were not able to find a Jerry Fisher '59 joined the Macalester faculty at 29. I responded with comments like "Which place to stay. The motel signs would say "Vacant" a decade after he one?" She gave me puzzled looks but laughed along. and they would go in and hear, "Sorry, we just graduated. I spent the next three years commuting from filled up." Japan to Korea (27 flights), trying to persuade her I did not think of myself as naive, but after that, to marry me. (A year later, the first time that I nothing has really been a shock to me. It made me proposed, she told me, "Maybe.") Much later, 1 realize that there are so many things we take tor learned that her question during our first day to- granted. No matter how much you study or know, gether — "Where is your wife?" — was entirely you've got to realize that other people have per- serious, for she had expected that afternoon to meet spectives, shaped by their particular environment, me and the American woman sitting next to me on that you just will never completely understand or the plane. Had she known I was single, she would appreciate. And they don't have to be from an never have come. exotic foreign culture. That lesson was important to me throughout my life.

2 o MACALESTER TODAY ondale arterand : Historic Visit on a Historic Day

hile the world's attention was riveted on the Mideast, Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter came to Macalester to reflect, educate, pay tribute and connect the past to the present.

We capture some highlights of the day on the next seven pages. by Jon Halvorsen

NOVEMBER 1993 21 z z < X XI OR WALTER MONDALE AND JIMMY CARTER, CO < X Sept. 10 was a day of happy coincidence. JJ ^: The former vice president returned Fto Macalester to receive the Board of Trustees Award for Meritorious and Distinguished Service. His former boss came to honor him at a special college convocation. It turned out to be the same day that Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization stunned the world by recognizing each other's legitimacy. The New York Tunes declared on its front page that Friday morning: "The Middle East will never be the same." (The Times story was written by About 35 students, Thomas L. Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning re- joined by more than a dozen members of the porter who received an honorary degree from news media, listen as Macalester in 1992.) The news came 15 years to Walter Mondale speaks to Professor Emily the month after Carter's own remarkable Mideast t Rosenberg's history class. The class met in peace initiative. the DeWitt Wallace Addressing 3,000 people on the lawn in front of Library's Harmon Room I r instead of Old Main to Old Main, under a brilliantly sunny sky, Mondale make room for the was exhilarated. "How lucky that we could have this media and cameras. all together," he said. "Typical Minnesota weather, and then this development, a historic day in the world." He emphasized that it was Carter who had "shown it was possible ... to find a common humanity among people who had gone to war four times" by bringing Israel and Egypt together for the 1978 Camp David Accords. The new Israeli-PLO agreement drew upon the language used at agreement was announced, lamented only that Camp David. there had been "too many empty years" between Although the careers 1978 and 1993. of both men testify to In several public appearances on campus that their conviction that day, Mondale, the newly appointed ambassador to people can shape his- Japan, appeared thoroughly at ease and at home on tory and not just be victims of it, both admitted that the campus where he had spent a little over two an Israeli-PLO agreement was not an event they years as a student. (He left after the tall semester in had expected to sec in their lifetimes. Carter, who 1948 to transfer to the University of Minnesota, had been secretly briefed by Yasir Arafat before the where he earned his B.A. in 1951 and a law degree in 1956.) Walking into Professor Emily Rosenberg's

2 2 MACALESTER TODAY Above: Mondale speaks at a luncheon I \\ attended by students, faculty, staff and • trustees in the Student Union's Cochran Lounge, where he and Joan Adams Mondale '52, now a Macalester trustee, were married in 1955. At left, accompanied by Joan and Professor Rosenberg, the former vice president discusses foreign policy with students in Rosenberg's class on U.S. foreign relations in the 20th century.

t was more than a homecoming for Walter Mondale. I Today's events represent a reassessment of two longtime world leaders As much as anything else, the rise and fall and rise again of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale are unusual in American politics.' —WCCO-TV reporter Pat Kessler 79, in his evening news report from Macalester on Sept 10

NOVEMBER 1993 "It's the way his which Fritz Mondale did not participate. I never Africa, peace in the Middle East are just two of the mind worked." At a faced a difficult decision without first consulting things in which Fritz Mondale was intimately in- luncheon in his with my partner, Fritz Mondale." volved," Carter said. President Gavin, right, honor in Cochran He singled out Mondale's strong stand in the Some students had the chance to question and Barbara Bauer Lounge, he clearly Armajani '63, chair of late 1970s for "one person, one vote" in South Mondale. At Professor Rosenberg's class on U.S. Macalester's Board of enjoyed telling what Africa, and his support of Carter's initiative with foreign relations in the 20th century, Mondale Trustees, lead the sounded like an oft- procession through the Egypt and Israel. "The end of apartheid in South spent 45 minutes discussing the legacy of the library plara to the told tale one Carter-Mondale adrninis- outdoor convocation, followed by Jimmy and more time: o tration. Mondale "didn't Rosalynn Carter and "Joan [the LLJ 3 necessarily get around to die Mondales. Opposite daughter of the page: Carter shares a <3 answering all the ques- humorous moment late Macalester with his audience of ts tions directly," Mark chaplain John 3,000 on the lawn in Laskowski '94 (Roches- front of Old Main. Maxwell ter, N.Y.) said afterward. Adams] and I "But he made other history class that morning, the member of were married in this room. The reason was that Macalester's Class of 1950 surveyed 30 students in those days we had required chapel and they from the 1990s and sought to put them at ease with used to take attendance. And regrettably, I broke omeone said a verbal wink: "Kind of a scroungy-looking lot, I'd all the absentee records I was called in by the that the problem say." Answering a student's question about Ronald dean. I said, 'Well, maybe if I marry the 'S Reagan's "Star Wars" proposal, Mondale scornfully chaplain's daughter, they'll forgive me.' So I did, with Christianity is that it's called it "typical Reagan Hollywood stuff," adding: and it sort of worked." At the afternoon convocation, he struck the right note never been tried. Well, the 1 of Minnesota informality when Carters are trying, and i he urged Macalester students to 5 study Japanese culture and I believe that we all see

LLJ | language, then come visit him that it works! in Tokyo: "We'll give you an inside deal." — Mondale, commenting on Carter's mere presence at Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's Macalester showed how close numerous current projects the two men have remained, a dozen years after they left the White House. But Carter, now points which were 69, put their relationship into equally insightful, which words, too. It wasn't just that brought up other ques- Mondale, three years his junior, tions, which were worth was the first vice president to speaking about also. So I have an office in the White was impressed." House. "Fritz and I are more Fred Carroll '95 like brothers than we are like (Pittsburg, Calif.), presi- Joanna Kepka '95, an international student from politicians who happened to be dent of the Community Poland, reads a prayer for peace in Polish near the end Council, served as mod- of the convocation. Students from five other countries thrown together at a crucial time in our lives," read the same prayer in one of the languages of their Carter told reporters. He later elaborated: "I erator of the question- home countries. They are (from left): Seth Halvorson answer session at the '96 of the U.S., Kumiko Ogoshi '95 of Japan, Lunga never had a meeting with any leader on earth Bengu '94 of South Africa, Ansu John '95 of India and from which Fritz Mondale was excluded. I never luncheon for Mondale. (not shown) Gabriela Valdivia '96 of Peru. received a briefing on the most sensitive issues He praised both Carter that faced our nation or the rest of the world in

24 MACALESTER TODAY NOVEMBER 1993 and Mondale for their candor at the convocation. Huntley Dupre, he stressed the need to move be- "1 was also particularly happy that the Mondales yond nationality and embrace a common humanity. were so open and amiable at the luncheon and "[If] we're to have any hope of understanding afterwards. They were completely accessible to one another and working together, education is students instead of just running off behind the crucial," he said. "Unfortunately, there is an oppos- Secret Service. I was glad that they could not only ing ideology that has gained way too much ground come to campus but interact with students in such in recent years. It seeks to separate people rather a positive fashion." than bring them together. It argues that people of Among those listening At the convocation which concluded the cam- the same race, the same ethnicity, the same reli- at the convocation are (from left) Laeh Raskas; pus events, Carter provoked the biggest laugh of gion — pick almost any characteristic you want — her husband, Rabbi the day with a deft recovery from his own verbal stand alone, and that everyone else is to be ex- Bernard Raskas, a distinguished visiting slip. Calling both the Mondales "graduates" of cluded. It is being argued that nobody can ever professor in religious studies at Macalester, Macalester — only Joan Mondale '52 earned a possibly have any hope of understanding persons who gave the opening degree from Macalester — he amended himself to outside their own group. prayer; Ansu John '95 of India; Gabriela say they were "at least alumni of a wonderful col- "At a fundamental level, this view denies the 11 Valdivia '96 of Peru; lege. As his listeners laughed, Carter then brought very possibility of education. It assumes that we and other international students. At right, down the house by ad-libbing: "Fritz said he would Carter and Armajani have graduated from Macalester, but the tuition applaud as Walter and Joan Mondale hold the was too high. He told me he went here for two award he received from years and the total cost per year was $400, and he the trustees. just couldn't afford it. I don't know if it's in- creased any since then " Carter said Mondale, as ambassador to Japan, was assum- ing "the single most important diplomatic post on earth. The relationship between the United States of America and Japan is the most important of all ... and it requires statesmanship and sensitivity." In his concluding remarks, Mondale turned to a theme that had a special resonance in a Macalester setting. Recalling that the college was flying the United Nations flag when he arrived on campus in the fall of 1946, and invoking the international outlook of such legendary Macalester figures as Charles Turck, Ted Mitau, Yahya Armajani and

26 MACALESTER TODAY he Trustees of Macalester College honor your dedication to public service and your work in proposing caring and compassionate solutions to the issues that have challenged our political leaders over the past four decades. You have served with distinction as a representative of the people, negotiator between opposing political forces, counselor and teacher, international statesman and progressive agent for change.

As a member of the United States Senate, you played a key role in the passage of many major pieces of social legislation. You redefined the office of the Vice President, establishing new and previously unmatched standards for involvement and participation in your administration. Your campaign for the Presidency in 1984 is remembered for its frankness and refusal to offer 111 oversimplified answers. iflll You personify Macalester's belief an that an emphasis on life-long nu scholarship and academic pursuit, internationalism and diversity can greatly serve our society. We are confident that, as Ambassador to Japan, you will continue to inspire MACALESTER the people of the United States, as COLLEGE well as those of Japan/ — words of the Board of Trustees Award for Meritorious and Distinguished Service

NOVEMBER 1993 cannot learn from one another. It denies what is most human in all ot us — the gift for sympathy, for understanding, for imagination, for striving to live in peace and har- mony with other fellow human beings, and, above all, the need and desire and capacity to learn from one another. And it entirely forfeits the joy which flows from discovering

Carter has a word with two of the guests — that common humanity which is to Whitney MacMillan, be found in all of us. chairman and chief executive officer of " ... in Eastern Europe and the Cargill Inc., and his wife, Betty — before a dinner former Soviet Union, we see ancient honoring the Mondales. historical disputes flaring anew. As At right, Walter and Joan exchange a word at the someone said, 'We've seen the future convocation. and it's 1914.' This region should be enjoying freedom. Instead, it's em- broiled in hatred, bloodshed and disarray. You can ; blame history if you want — and there's plenty of it // ideo available But the fact is that people make history, and it's A 30-M1NUTE VIDEOTAPE OF WALTER time to undo the tragedy and the heartache that Mondale's Sept. 10 visit to campus, including footage oi the Mondale-Carter convoca- flows from this bigoted concept of the inability of tion and the day's highlights, is available tree of people to find common ground. How much more charge. You may also order both an audiotape and hopeful are the efforts to reach across the abyss of a transcript of the convocation. For any or all three hatred and bitterness, across the tragedy of histories of these, please send a postcard with your name, to that quest for peace that can only flow from an address, phone number and specific request to: awareness of our common humanity . . . ." • Media Services, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105-1899. Allow three weeks for delivery. The videotape supply is limited to 500.

28 MACALESTER TODAY Books Meet Computers user on a computer screen or a printer but is in a "virtual" library as opposed to a real, bricks-and- mortar, local library. There are major legal (copy- in the Age right), technical and cultural issues implicit in this vision. That is why the library is cosponsoring the of Technology college's 1993-94 Wallace Distinguished Visitors Program, entitled "Culture, Information and Technology." Like the book, the print journal remains impor- by Joel Clemmer tant to libraries, but is subject to even greater eco- nomic and technological strain. The prices of scholarly journals have risen 109 percent since ONTRARY TO WHAT YOU MAY HAVE READ — 1984 (compared with 77 percent for health care, C•^even in a book — computers will not replace 45 percent for books and 37 percent for food, for books in the foreseeable future. Whether you regard example). Publishers attribute such inflation to the books as just packages of information or as almost increasing cost of paper, restrictions on the kind of holy objects, the "codex" format — the book as we ink they can use and so on. Knowledge is expand- know it — is still the most convenient package for ing, too, requiring more titles and more pages to extended text (it's often used by computer manufac- cover the knowledge. Macalester's DeWitt Wallace turers tor their manuals). Books are still the coin of the realm in academia, a measure of both prestige and accomplishment. Values lag behind technologi- yy e no longer ask only how we can get our cal possibilities. Far from creating the predicted "paperless office,'1 hands on the most information, but rather, the computer has generated even more paper. Truman Schwartz, a professor of chemistry at Macal- how much does the user want to know?' ester, has walked around the campus and noticed piles of paper coming out of the computers that are supposed to replace books. These computer printouts Library now subscribes to 1,360 journals — up from are proliferating so rapidly that they are becoming 1,100 in 1986-87 — but that's still not enough, hard to manage. As Truman sees it, eventually some- according to most faculty. And to mention just one body will take these accordion-like printouts, stack journal, what began as simply the Physics Review is them, stitch them on one edge, put hard covers on now the Physics Review in five parts, with each issue them and stand them up along one edge so you can of each part amounting to the size of a book. put them on a shelf. They will be called "bound Few library budgets can keep up, and some aca- output of knowledge" — "books" for short. demic departments at Macalester cannot purchase There is a growing irony in that the writers of all the books they want after paying for journal books and articles — including the faculty at Macal- ester — increasingly use electronic means (personal computers, floppy disks) to create a manuscript. Joel Clemmer, who came Often, the writers send the resulting computerized to Macalester in 1985 document (and accompanying paper manuscript) to from Bucknell University, a publisher, which in turn transfers the document to is director of the college's print on paper and then sells this paper product back DeWitt Wallace Library. to the colleges where the book or article was origi- He has a B.A. in history nally computerized. from Lehigh University, We who work in libraries have to wonder if an anM.A. in European alternate system could be developed in cooperation history from Northwestern. with the publishing community. One can imagine a University and a master's library computer system in which the information — in library science from the a book chapter, an article or whatever the package University of Pittsburgh. happens to be — is immediately accessible to the

NOVEMBER 1993 29 subscriptions. One sign of the strain is interlibrary borrowing, which has tripled at Macalester since 1986-87. Such borrowing will eventually 1 be done by scanning and sending ifliow Yd g printed articles electronically (there's if TO V°« that irony again). At Macalester, our progress toward full utilization of electronic tools was given a real boost in the mid-1980s. At that time, the six other Twin Cities colleges and universities which are part of CLIC (Cooperating Librar- ies in Consortium) responded to a proposal by President Gavin and the president ot the CLIC board to imple- ment a computerized library catalog, replacing our traditional card catalogs. at Macalester before going to This joint catalog lists the holdings at all another library for what might be an expensive or seven libraries — now about 1.75 million books. time-consuming transaction. When we upgraded Macalester alumni can dial into the library catalog the CLICnet catalog earlier this year, we set it up (but we prefer that you work through your local so that users look at Macalester holdings first. Then CLICnet, a computerized library to borrow material). they have the option of going on to the library catalog, lists the If you look around the first floor of the DeWitt other libraries. holdings of Macalester Wallace Library, which opened in September 1988, We have also learned that introducing new in- and six other cooperating you see computers everywhere. We continue to formation technologies in the library is not entirely libraries in the Twin Cities — about 1.75 work at taking advantage of this powerful tool. like automating an assembly line. Where processing million books. But we in the library are trying to make informa- of repetitive transactions is the issue, we can often tion services — such save time. Where working with the library user or as the computerized developing new systems is the issue, new technolo- catalog — pedagogi- gies add power but do not save time. For example, cally useful. We don't we recently added another reference librarian be- want the information- cause of the increasing need to guide students thirsty library user to through these complicated strategies. Successful try to "drink from a change requires not just investment in computers firehose," as the but also in people. phrase goes. We have Some users wonder about the future of books and the ability to give the libraries. Our job is not limited to housing books. user so much informa- Rather, our purpose LS to connect Macalester stu- tion that it's simply dents and faculty with the scholarly information overwhelming. they need. That challenging task will remain con- Thus, libraries are stant, regardless of the format. © facing new questions. We no longer ask only how we can get our hands on the most information to give the user, but rather, eWitt Wallace Library how much does the Books cataloged: 300,000 (plus user want to know? D 40,000 bound periodicals) When does he or she need to know it? And how should it be delivered? Microforms and other formats: 60,000 (microfiche, films, videotapes, sound Our experience with the joint catalog shows recordings, maps) that it's not particularly useful to give every library location for every item right off the bat, because Periodical subscriptions: 1,360 some people would routinely bypass our shelves at Annual operating budget: $1.3 million Macalester and go off to St. Thomas or Hamline. In (including salaries and benefits) one way, that's good, since it helps users learn what Staff: 16 permanent; 90 student employees information is available at other Twin Cities institutions. But in another way it's worrisome, because Interlibrary loan transactions: 14,000 we make a real effort to maintain a good collection a year of titles at Macalester that are needed repeatedly Reference questions: 16,000 a year by users in our increasingly rigorous curriculum. Circulation transactions: 85,000 We want library users to consider what's available a year

MACALESTER TODAY MACALESTER YESTERDAY Fifty-two years after his debut, the first bagpiper pipes up by Rebecca Ganzel and Kerry Sarnoski Macalester and Summit avenues: "This will be the real college house, the lack of Here arc glimpses oj Klacalcstcr which has always been lamented on the in years past: part [of] the Achesons and the students." The reference was to John Carey Bagpipes make an unforgettable sound at Acheson, president of Macalester from Macalester's commencements and other 1924 to 1937. college ceremonies. Rut does anyone re- Acheson and his family were to live on member who was the first student to serve the second floor, with the first floor in- as an official piper at Macalester? tended as a reception area for up to 500 It may well have been William Knowles people, the basement given over to a '48. As a freshman in 1941, he was asked "community room... beautifully fur- by the college to pipe tor the annual nished ... for the use of students in various Founders1 Day program. Founders1 Day was school social events," and the third floor inaugurated in 1938 as a way to honor accommodating two maids' rooms. Funds former Macalester President James for the house (the amount wasn't dis- Wallace and simultaneously recognize the closed) were provided by trustee George college's Scottish roots. It was held each D. Dayton and his wife. year on Wallace's birthday and featured a The Georgian brick building served as cake large enough to serve 400 people. the home of Macalester's presidents from A photograph in the March 20, 1941, 1927, the year it was finished, until the Mac Weekly shows Knowles wearing his 1980s. It is now the Hugh S. Alexander kilts and playing the bagpipes. Alumni House, named after the late pro- "I played a feu1 other times, [or Home- fessor of geology who first proposed the coming and other events," Knowles re- Alumni House. It is available year-round called recently. "I had never heard of any as the college's official guest facility for re- other student playing the bagpipes. 1 knew turning alumni and other college visitors. President Turck, Dr. [Edwin] Kagin and Alumni House has four guest rooms some other old-timers, and I think they This photograph of William Knowles '48 (three with private baths and one with would have told me [if there had been an appeared in the March 20, 1941, shared bath) as well as reception and earlier student piper] They had had Mac Weekly. meeting rooms. Rates, which include a pipes at Founders' Day prior to that be- in downtown St. Paul to protest the parent continental breakfast, range from $35 to cause the gentleman who taught me how company's segregation of customers in $50 for a single, $45 to $60 for a double, to play had played at Founders' Day. But the South. and $65 to $70 for a triple. For more infor- he wasn't a student. He just happened to The students formed moving picket mation, call (612) 696-6677. be a bagpiper who lived in St. Paul." lines in front of the Paramount and Although he grew up in St. Paul, Riviera, carrying signs with such messages • Life during wartime Knowles was horn in Edinburgh, Scotland. as, "We Protest ABC Paramount's Jim If 1944 had been an ordinary year, Gordon "My parents took me to Scotland when I Crow Theaters in the South," "Think West '38, six years out of college, might was 15, and hearing the pipe bands in a Again Before You Go In" and "Boycott for have been tracking his way up the corpo- parade for the king and queen of Britain Integration." They had no direct com- rate ladder. inspired me. When I came back, I took plaint against either local theater, which Instead, reported the Mac Weekly, Lieu- [bagpipe] lessons." did not practice segregation. tenant West was commanding a tank Knowles' college education was inter- The demonstration occurred simulta- platoon that, in a series of sorties south of rupted by three years of Army service neously with other student demonstrations Rome, killed 125 Germans in two days. during World War II. He returned to against the ABC Paramount chain in His efforts helped increase the area con- graduate with the Class of '48. It wasn't Kansas City, Chapel Hill, Austin, San trolled by the Allies "to 85 square miles." until 1950 that the college launched a Antonio, Boston, Chicago and other A separate article in the same February student bagpipe band. cities. issue listed Robert Jenckes, who had en- Knowles, a retired YMCA director, and The Mac Weekly supported the students listed after his freshman year in 1937, as his wife, Marjorie Thomas Knowles '47, in a subsequent editorial, which con- missing in action. Jenckes, a St. Paul na- live in Jefferson City, Mo. They returned cluded: "Macalester College appears to be tive, was machinist mate first class aboard to Macalester last June for Reunion Week- emerging from charges of apathy with the submarine Pompano, which had been end. And, oh yes, he donned his kilts and public evidence of student concern." missing for three months. • played the bagpipes again at the Class of '48 banquet. • House for all seasons "Mac Receives Joy Complex as Prexy's Rebecca Ganzel is a St. Paid free-lance • Segregated theaters Home is Started," declared the headline in writer. Kerry Sarnoski is publications editor In February 1961, 65 Macalester students the Nov. 17, 1926, Mac Weekly. at Macalester. demonstrated against two movie theaters The story enthusiastically described the new house being built at the corner of NO V EMBER 1993 ALUMNI NEWS

Calendar of events Hero are some of the events scheduled tor alumni, parents, family and friends. More events are being added all the time. For more information on any of the following, call the Alumni Office, (612) 696-6295, except where noted. You may also call the campus events line, (612)696-6900:

Macalester Galleries, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center: retrospective of works by Minnesota artist Phyllis Wiener, now through Nov. 21; Russian Wooden Architecture, Dec. 3-Jan. 12; Black Dog: Recent Images by Donald Palmgren, Jan. 21—Feb. 13; Jay Moon: Printmaker, Draftsman, Poet, opens Feb. 18

Nov. 12-14 and 18-20: "Reifuku (Ceremonial Clothes)," drama about Japanese family by Matsuyo Akimoto, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center (612-696-6359) Nov. 16: all-ages social hour (6-8 p.m.) A good weekend for leadership for Washington, D.C., alumni at Brickskeller, 1523 22nd St. NW The new lounge in Old Main was the setting for a reception during Macalester's annual Leadership Conference, Sept. 17-19. Above: Lisa Bramlet, an assistant (202-546-0218) director in the Admissions Office, talks with David Senness '70, center, of Golden Valley, Minn., a member of the Alumni Association's Board of Directors, and James Nov. 17: Alumni event in Tucson, Ariz. Migdal '86 of Charlotte, N.C., an alumni admissions coordinator. Below: Durjoy (602-625-6168) Mazumdar '86, an alumni board member from Minneapolis, and Kathleen Field James '63, right, of Little Rock, Ark., an admissions volunteer, listen to Jean Anderson Probst '49 of St. Paul, a retired Macalester math instructor and a member Nov. 19: Mac Jazz, contemporary and of her class reunion committee, in Cochran Lounge. The Leadership Conference is a classical big band jazz, 8 p.m. (696-6382) time for class agents, reunion committees, M Club directors and many other alumni volunteers to get an update on the college and make plans for the coming year. Nov. 20: Macalester Symphonic Band, 3 p.m. (696-6382)

Nov. 20-21: Macalester Festival Dec. 3-4: Chorale, 8 p.m. Nov. 20 and 3 p.m. Macalester Concert Nov. 21 (696-6520) Choir's 17th Annual Festive Evenings, Dec. 1: Writer Robert Coover, 8 p.m., Cochran "Hypertext: A New Medium for Fiction," Lounge (696-6520) 8 p.m., Weyerhaeuser Chapel, Wallace Distinguished Visitors Program Dec. 4: African Music Ensemble, Dec. 2: Twin Cities Leading Edge event, 8 p.m. (696-6382) "Six Degrees of Separation," Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis Dec. 5: St. Paul Civic Symphony, Dec. 2-4: Macalester Dance Ensemble, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. (696-6382) Dec. 14: all-ages social hour for fall concert, 8 p.m. (696-6520) Washington, D.C., alumni, 6-8 p.m., Dec. 10: Flying Fingers, American folk Lu Lu's, 2119 M St. NW (202-546-0218) Dec. 3: Macalester Symphony Orchestra, and traditional music, 8 p.m. (696-6382) 8 p.m. (696-6382) Dec. 14: The Sirens and Traditions, Dec. 11: Highland Dancers & Friends, Macalester men's and women's a cappella 8 p.m. (696-6382) vocal ensembles, 8 p.m. (696-6382)

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Sounds of Sommerfest It was "Macalester night" July 29 at the Minnesota Orchestra's Viennese Sommerfest in Minneapolis. Alumni and friends met in the Green Room at Orchestra Hall for conversation and refreshments, then enjoyed an evening of Brahms. Among those in attendance were Peg Flanagan '78, far left, who works at the Minnesota Orchestral Association, and Donald Kuster '65 and Vicky Yarger Kuster '64 of Burnsville, Minn.

Feb. 5: Great Scots event, "The Body-Mind Connection," with Ruth Strieker Dayton '57, health and wellness expert

Feb. 12: Winter Sports Day, Macalester Field House

Feb. 25-27: Winter weekend for alumni, families and friends, Red Hill Inn, Centre Harbor, N.H. (call 617-2364628 nights and weekends

April 16: Great Scots event, "Global Awareness," with geography Professor David Lanegran '64

May 7: Scottish Country Fair

June 3-5: Reunion Weekend

Happy birthday to us Members of the Class of 1965 enjoyed a group 50th birthday party on Aug. 7. They held it outdoors at Macalester's Library Plaza — the same place as their 25th reunion dinner. In all, 31 people — most of them classmates — turned out for the dinner. "The weather was perfect, the food delicious and the company superior!" class agent Ruth Milanese Lippin of Minneapolis wrote in a newsletter to classmates. The group is already working on its 30th reunion in 1995.

NOVEMBER 1993 33 GIVING BACK Steve Cox 76 steps forward for the college and its athletes by Kevin Brooks '89 what was to become a 22-month adven- academics, campus climate, opportunities ture overseas. He studied in Nepal, worked after Macalester, etc." "When I was a student at Macalester, we for a year in a Norwegian kitchen furniture Coaching has also progressed. "They're didn't have an M Club," says Steve Cox factory, traveled through Europe and even- not just looking at the athlete. They're 76. "You might have an occasional faculty tually made his way to Israel, where he looking at the student and the human member come to a soccer game, but that worked on a kibbutz. being who is in a college experience and was about it." While overseas, Cox kept in touch with preparing for that next chapter in their Things are different now. Cox, the new his adviser, Jerry Fisher '59, who encour- lives. It's such a healthy approach, not president of the M Club, is eager to build aged him to return to Macalester and get only in addressing the needs of a college upon the work of his predecessor, Doyle involved with the Twin Cities Institute for student, but addressing the needs of a Larson '52, who helped make the M Club Talented Youth. He did, and has been college athlete. I see it throughout the a significant part of the athletic program at with the institute every summer. Cox is Athletic Department, from [Athletic Macalester. The M Club board, of which now its coordinator for special events and Director] Ken Andrews' office to the Cox has been a member since 1986, orga- recreation. trainers." nizes fund-raising events, helps with re- College athletes are very different now, Cox is grateful to Macalester for all he cruiting, honors current and former ath- he says. "[In 1972] the sole question I may received, and he feels good about giving letes, and functions as an advocacy group have asked would have been about my something back as M Club president. on athletic issues. chances for making the team .... Now I "Macalester said, 'Here's an open door to "I personally see the M Club as one part would go to a coach and expect him to the world. Where do you want to go and of the puzzle that can help a program move have answers to questions about athletics, how can we help you get there?' " • from one status level to a greater status level," says Cox, who teaches social studies and coordinates an enrichment program at 'There were friendships made that first week of soccer that I still Washington Junior High School in St. Paul. He also coaches soccer at Como Park have today. I think that's an important aspect of athletics at a school Senior High School. the size of Macalester/ As a student at Macalester — he ma- jored in history with a core concentration in philosophy and English — Cox says he saw the Athletic Department existing apart from campus life in general. "In any college experience, whether you're talking about a state school or a school like Macalester, there is so much that goes into the campus environment. If athletics is a part of the college program, let's make it an integral part of what happens on campus." Cox is an enthusiastic supporter of all athletic endeavors at Macalester, but he is particularly fond of the soccer program. Having been both player and assistant coach at Macalester, Cox revels in the success of that program under head coach John Leaney. He still remembers the day during orientation week when the men's soccer coach invited him to try out for the team — the varsity team. "It was a season to build character," he says with a laugh. "Despite the poor record, there were friendships made that first week of soccer that I still have today. 1 think that's an important aspect of athletics at a school the size of Macalester." Cox played varsity soccer for four years. He broke his leg in the final game of his Steve Cox '76 at Como Park Senior High School in St. Paul, where he coaches final season. The full-length cast kept him soccer. "What's remarkable about Steve is the breadth of his activity on behalf of Macalester," says Macalester Athletic Director Ken Andrews. "He's approaching from participating in athletics that winter. 20 years of active involvement in everything from the academic program to That spring he made plans to leave on coaching, the M Club, fund raising and recruiting."

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NOVEMBER 1993 45 MACROCOSM Who's in charge in '93 ? Three answers from the Class of 73

For the Class of 1973'5 20th reunion dinner building and community that we learned last June at h/iacalester, three classmates at Macalester. It is our turn, and now we were invited to speak on the topic, "From have both the authority and the responsi- Questioning Authority to Becoming Author- bility to change. ity." Here are excerpts from their remarks: It is harder to bring moral and ethical values into the interstices of daily life than it is to bring them into the streets. It is harder to choose a school for your child than it was to rail against poor education in the inner city. It is harder to tell an

It is harder than almost anything to raise a child who is not sexist or racist because it is harder to live your values than to voice them.' — Judy Woods

important client on whose business you depend that you will not tolerate racist Lester Collins '73 jokes than it was to sign fair housing peti- tions. It is harder to leave an infant in day power elite against whom we rebelled 20 care and go to work every day than it was years ago. to march in Washington, D.C., for equal Growth, not conformity; community, pay for equal work. It is harder to put a not special interests; valuing personal parent in a nursing home than it is to relationships over personal success — Judy Woods '73 debate health care policy. It is harder to these will bring us through the next 20 face a spouse's drinking problem than it years and leave a legacy for our children Judy L. Woods '73 is an attorney was to pass a joint around a dorm room. It worthy of respect. for corporate and other business clients is harder to recycle than to put a "Save the in Indianapolis, Ind. A partner in Whales" bumper sticker on your car. It is McTurnan & Turner, she is also han- harder than almost anything to raise a Lester Collins '73 is executive director dling the appeal of boxer Mike Tyson's child who is not sexist or racist because it of the Minnesota Council on Black Min- rape conviction. She is married to John is harder to live your values than to voice nesotans, a state agency charged to advise Koppitch '73, pastor of an inner-city them. It is hardest of all to recognize that the governor and the Legislature on church in Indianapolis. what you live, the way you live, is a public issues affecting the African and African- announcement of what you value for all to American population in Minnesota. OUR GENERATION WAS AND IS DIFFERENT. see every day. We challenged the fundamental founda- As we move into positions of authority, I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN FROM EARLY CHILD- tions of authority. We challenged the we have the responsibility to make choices hood that the struggle for equality would decision-makers. Who were they? What that extend beyond self-interest. We must be my life. I came to Macalester from in- right did they have to choose for us? make choices that reflect the core values ner-city Philadelphia. I would not have In the midst of today's racism, milita- of community and caring. To do this, we been able to come without a scholar- rism, sexism, poverty and decay, the great- need diversity at the decision-making ship — an academic scholarship. My est challenge is not to succumb to our own tables. Not because it is politically correct dream was to be able to go on to so-called personal cynicisms and self-interest, but to to have a woman, an African-American, advanced education. I put all my determi- make choices that reflect the values of an Hispanic and a disabled person in every nation into achieving a goal that many of diversity and inclusiveness, consensus- group, but because diversity among the my people in another generation were not decision-makers is the best safeguard we able to achieve. have to ensure that our choices are not So we probably come from different narrowed by the same corporate/political/ perspectives when we're talking about

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LETTERS continued from inside front cover 4. Have a separate endowment for food. and the friendships started at meal time This would help pay for faculty dining can continue. This is why it's a good 1. Create a situation in the Campus Center and support the costs of programming at idea to keep the eating and meeting dining hall where there's "visual proxim- the facility without entangling the fi- facilities near each other; when people ity between students and faculty" while nances of other campus programs. have to break up and re-congregate they eat. This gives the studious rela- 5. A school needs to have its "own chefs"; elsewhere, something always gets lost in tionship a break and allows everybody a food gains meaning if you have an idea the move. Keeping meetings open to chance to relax around each other. who created it. It helps if they know the public allows students the opportu- 2. Give faculty incentives to eat with stu- you, too. nity to stay on campus and receive out- dents — i.e., a conference room in the side stimulation rather than abandon 6. Have weekly after-meal programs open campus in search of fun. dining hall with free food but only when to the community with speakers and used in conjunction with students. Rob Schwartz '88 performers at the center. By keeping the Minneapolis 3. Allow faculty and spouses to eat at the events close to meal time, you can utilize facility any time for free. the people who are already assembled

MACROCOSM continued anarchist, I have to define my terms. An- authority. I prefer to look upon the respon- archism means "libertarian socialism." I sibilities that 1 have — ox stewardship and think that if voting for president is a good accountability. While the governor in one idea, it would be a much better idea to sense is my boss, I've never lost sight of the fact there's a God in heaven to whom 1 report. The thing I probably realize most is that there are still people in need, that there 1 Propagandists struggle to blame are those who don't have the opportunities that we had. I have health coverage. I the Sixties — that outbreak of have a decent-paying job. 1 receive a fair actual democracy — for amount of recognition. I'm still learning, 1 still trying to do the best I can. Mostly I'm everything. trying to be an example to my fellow man. — Charles Young

7 prefer to look upon the vote for your boss. And the best idea would be to get rid of the boss entirely and responsibilities that 1 have — let people make their own decisions. of stewardship and Everyone who has ever worked for a living knows that a corporation is not a accountability.' democracy. It is a rigid hierarchy — — Lester Collins a system of command and obedience — in which the guy with the most money gets to tell everyone else what to do. Inevitably Charles Young '73 that guy hoards his money, and we end up with a world that is awash with computers, Charles M. Young '73 is a freelance a form of democracy, vast concentrations cars and other commodities that fewer and writer who has written for Rolling Stone, of wealth have so grossly distorted our fewer people can afford because the boss Playboy, the Neiv York Times, the politics that voting for president carries and his peers sent all the decent jobs to Atlantic Monthly, Musician, MTV, VH-1 little more significance than voting for Singapore. and (in his words) "other corporate enti- student council. Whoever you elect, the Such a system is inherently unstable, ties." He lives in New York City. significant decisions have already been causing vast social dislocation and chronic made by those who own the school. In- lying as our propagandists struggle to 1 DO NOT FAVOR QUESTIONING AUTHORITY deed, the sham democracy of high school blame the Sixties — that outbreak of or becoming authority. I favor abolishing and college makes excellent training for actual democracy — for everything. So authority. Although we enjoy certain the sham democracy of "real life." what we have is chaos. What we need is freedoms in the United States and practice The corporate press invariably uses the anarchy. • term "anarchy" as a synonym for chaos, so when I explain to people that I am an

NOVEMBER 1993 49 Flag Waving with a Difference

Macalester's tradition of internationalism impressed Jimmy Carter when the former president came to campus Sept. 10 to honor Walter F. Mondale '50. "It's a thrill to come to a college which, so far as I know, is the only one that has had the American flag and the United Nations flag flying ever since the United Nations was created," Carter told an outdoor convocation. Here, Constantina Pavlou '95 of Cyprus carries a flag in the procession to the convocation in front of Old Main. This fall, 230 international students (including dual citizens and permanent residents) from 83 countries make up 12.5 percent of Macalester's student body.

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